Pushkin: Little Tragedies

Description

This edition of Pushkin's tragedy Boris Godunov is part of the Bristol Classical Press Russian Texts series. The series is designed to meet the needs of the growinghigh school and undergraduate market for texts in the Russian language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 -1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era, one of Russia's greatest poets and the founder of modern Russian literature. Victor Terras is Henry L. Goddard University Professor of Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature emeritus at Brown University, USA. He is the author of Mayakovsky, The Idiot: An Interpretation; A History of Russian Literature. A Karamazov Companion, and has translated three volumes of Dostoevsky's writing.